linguistic process

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Noun	1.	linguistic process - a process involved in human language linguistics - the scientific study of language agglutination - the building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining assimilation - a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound derivation - (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation; "`singer' from `sing' or `undo' from `do' are examples of derivations" dissimilation - a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other; "the Old French MARBRE became the English MARBLE by dissimilation" drift - a process of linguistic change over a period of time fusion - the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words human process - a process in which human beings are involved infection - (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound lexicalisation, lexicalization - the process of making a word to express a concept metathesis - a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence deletion, omission - any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases synaeresis, syneresis - the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong
	2.	linguistic process - the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication; "he didn't have the language to express his feelings" language higher cognitive process - cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use reading - the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message; "his main reading was detective stories"; "suggestions for further reading"